News update:Trump signs executive order making English official language of US
President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order making English the official language of the U.S.
The order revokes an executive order issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000, “Improving Access Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency,” that required federal agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.
While English has been used as the country’s national language — seen in every historic governing document — the U.S. has never had an official language.
“A nationally designated language is at the core of a unified and cohesive society, and the United States is strengthened by a citizenry that can freely exhange ideas in one shared language,” Trump wrote in the order.
The U.S. is one of just a few countries without an official language. About 180 of the 195 countries across the globe have made the distinction.
